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The End of Time
Three days after terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, David Horowitz discovered that he had prostate cancer. As America was rebuilding, he emerged from months of treatment with a reprieve\" from his disease. He emerged as well with this remarkable book of hard won insights about how we get to our end and what we learn along the way. A stunning departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals, The End of Time is a wide ranging, unflinching and lyrical meditation on subjects ranging from what parents inadvertently teach us in their deaths, to the forbidding reality of the cancer ward and the way in which figures like Mohammed Atta use death to become gods of their own mad creation. Hovering protectively over these ruminations and Horowitz's personal crisis is his wife April, whose stubborn love reached into the heart of his medical darkness and led him back toward the light of this work. The End of Time is also about the redemptive power of language and literature. One of the writers appearing in its text is the Catholic philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal, whose Pensees functions as Horowitz's model and guide. Citing Pascal's famous observation that the heart has its reasons of which reason does not know,\" Horowitz writes: I do not have the faith of Pascal, but I know its feeling. While reason tells me the pictures will stop, I will be unafraid when death comes. I will feel my way toward the horizon in front of me, and my heart will take me home.
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Political conversion
Stories of religious conversion have been told for millennia. Yet many prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Rick Perry have also used stories of their change from one political worldview to another as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public. This book is about political conversion stories in public discourse, in their evolution from and interactions with religion. From a historical perspective, it charts the development of conversion narratives from religious contexts to their contemporary applications as specifically political messages. Since these narratives continue to be used in the culture wars, this book examines several related autobiographies that contributed to the use of this strategy in contemporary U.S. politics. Each case shows how shifts during the postwar period called for conversion texts under varying guises, and illustrates how and why the majority of these stories have been of conversions from the ideological left to the right. Examining political conversion as a form of public persuasion, Political Conversion ultimately provides insight into what these types of civic-religious stories mean for democratic communication and communities.
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Impasse at the MLA
At the annual gathering of the Modern Language Association (MLA), panel members seemed to talk past each other. Mark Bauerlein and David Horowitz each criticized the professoriate for not acknowledging real problems in the classroom or the ways identity politics can infringe on academic freedom. Norma V. Canti and Cary Nelson did not respond to the problems suggested by Bauerlein and Horowitz, but offered defenses of academic freedom as essential for higher education, especially as rising numbers of adjunct faculty members lack customary protections. Discussion devolved to challenges from the audience regarding inclusion of Horowitz, who was charged by the MLA Radical Caucus as consistently misrepresenting the views of academics whom he wishes to discredit, in the first place. Ultimately, MLA President Gerald Graff stepped up to bring the meeting back to substance. \"The charge is whether professors are bullying students,\" said Graff during the question period, concurring with Bauerlein and Horowitz that more curiosity on the stated subject is needed.
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Reception of the Developmental Approach in the Jewish Economic Discourse of Mandatory Palestine, 1934–1938
During the 1930s a set of novel economic ideas made its way into the Jewish economic discourse. These ideas, imported from Western industrial countries, brought about the abandonment of the agrarian ethos and the reception of what I term the ethos of rapid development. The article provides a new perspective on the change in attitude of the Labor Movement toward the entrepreneurial sector, industrial development, and urbanization underlying the role of economic ideas in the articulation of Zionism.
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